Today musicians in social networks staged a flashmob - painted their profiles in turquoise color. Beyonce, Rihanna, Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Chris Martin, Coldplay and others replaced their avatars on Twitter and Instagram, equipping picture hashtag #TIDALforALL.We are talking about how to restart the service strimingovyh Tidal, which initiated a musician Jay-Z.
Tidal focus on streaming high quality music. In addition, Jay-Z is planning to get new releases by famous musicians before other services (eg, Beats Music and Spotify), and publish videos, make editorial selections. Rapper promises to subscribers "first music service that combines music with the best sound quality, high resolution video and expert advice".
At the moment, the service has 25 million tracks and 75,000 videos in HD-quality. Full subscription to the service purchased 35,000 people. For comparison, a paid subscription to Spotify, where it costs $ 9.99 for the music in 320 kbit / s, issued 15 million people (all on Spotify 60 million people). Tidal operates in 31 countries (Spotify - 58). In the near future will start as early as six.
On Tidal be two types of paid subscriptions (both - with a free trial month) with MP3-quality music and music in lossless-quality formats. The first is available for $ 9.99 a month, the second - to $ 19.99 per month.
It is known that Apple is preparing a new music service for streaming music. Apple Beats release will be held simultaneously with the release of a new version of iOS (possibly under the number 8.4 or 9.0). In her company did a great job on the bugs, greatly increasing the stability of the system. New music service will be available in the form of applications for iOS and Android, Mac-applications and the web version. The product also comes on Apple TV.